Total synthesis of brevenal

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3208-3216

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Rohanna, John ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Iyer, Karthik ^a   Rainier, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-H BOND; CONVERGENT SYNTHETIC STRATEGY; CYCLIZATION REACTIONS; TOTAL SYNTHESIS;

CYCLIZATION;

ESTERS;

BREVENAL; MARINE TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CYCLIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ALKENES; CYCLIZATION; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; ETHERS; MARINE TOXINS; POLYMERS;

EID: 79952259432     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja200089f     Document Type: Article

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